Date of birth: 05.12.1977 Place of birth: Jerusalem, Israel Business address: Rotterdam School of Management Burgemeester Oudlaan 50 3062PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands Tel.: +31 (0)10 4082537 shemla@rsm.nl Curriculum Vitae Dr. Meir Shemla Academic Positions Oct. 2012-2011- 2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Organization and Personnel Management, Rotterdam School of Management Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Work and Organizational Psychology, TU Dresden 2007-2011 PhD candidate and Lecturer at the Institute of Work and Organizational Psychology, TU Dresden 2005-2007 Assistant at the ADIGU project, Institute of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich Education 2007-2011 PhD in Work and Organizational Psychology, TU Dresden *Dissertation: Broadening Team Composition Research by Conceptualizing Team Diversity as a Cross-Level Moderating Variable (Final grade: summa cum laude) 2005-2007 MA in Psychology of Excellence in Business and Education, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany *Thesis: The Moderating Role of Manager Tenure on the Relationship between Group Diversity and Performance (Final grade: Excellent) 2002-2004 BA in Psychology, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Publications Accepted 1. Schraub, E. M., Micheli, A., Shemla, M., & Sonntag, K. (in press). The role of leader emotion management and team conflict for team members proactive behavior: A multilevel perspective. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 2. Hentschel, T., Shemla, M., Wegge, J., & Kearney, E. (in press). Perceived diversity is bad for team functioning: The role of shared emotions as a mediator and diversity beliefs as a moderator. Small Group Research. 3. Shemla, M., Kearney, E., Wegge, J., & Stegmann, S. (in press). Team diversity, team processes, and team performance: The moderating role of leader mood. Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management. 4. Wegge, J., Jungmann, F., Liebermann, S., Shemla, M., Ries, B.C., Diestel, S. & Schmidt, K.-H. (in press). What makes age diverse teams effective? Results from a six-year research program. Work, 41, 5145-5151. 5. Shemla, M., & Meyer, B. (in press). Bridging diversity in organizations and cross-cultural work psychology by studying perceived differences. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice. 6. Meyer, B., Shemla, M., & Schermuly, C. C. (2011). Social category salience moderates the effect of diversity faultlines on information elaboration. Small Group Research, 42, 257 282. 7. Shemla, M. (2011). Group composition as a cross-level moderator. The Group Psychologist, 21, 28-29. Pending Under revision 1. Kearney, E., & Shemla, M. (R&R). The impact of empowering leadership on team performance: The moderating role of cognitive diversity and goal interdependence. Academy of Management Journal. Book chapters 1. Dej, D., Shemla, M., & Wegge, J. (in press). Entrepreneurs creativity and innovation: a key to performance. In A-G. Tan (Ed.), Creativity and Talent Development. Frankfurt: Springer. 2. Shemla, M., Dej, D., & Wegge, J. (in press). Aiming for innovation in teams: The promise of team diversity. In A-G. Tan (Ed.), Creativity and Talent Development. Frankfurt: Springer. 2
3. Ries, B. C., Diestel, S., Shemla, M., Liebermann, S. C., Jungmann, F. Wegge, J. & Schmidt, H.-H. (in press). Age diversity and team effectiveness. In C. M. Schlick, J. Wegge & E. Frieling (Eds.), Age-differentiated work systems. Berlin: Springer. 4. Wegge, J., & Shemla, M. (2011). Diversity-Management. In W. Sarges (Ed.), Management-Diagnostik. Göttingen: Hogrefe-Verlag. 5. Dej, D. & Shemla, M. (2008). Entrepreneurial profile: Personality and competencies. In J. A. M. Leon, M. Gorgievski, & M. Lukes (Eds.), Teaching Psychology of Entrepreneurship; Perspectives from Six European Countries (pp.102-116). Madrid: UNED. Awards Research 1. Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management, GDO division, Boston, 2012 2. APA (The American Psychological Association, Division 49) Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation, 2011 (1000$). 3. The Werner-Straub Prize, 2011, for Excellence in Doctoral Research. 4. Shortlisted for the Commerzbank s Dissertation Prize, 2011. 5. The Sage Poster Award, INGroup Conference, 2011. 6. The paper Team diversity, team processes, and team performance was nominated by the GDO division for the Academy of Management s Carolyn Dexter Award for best international paper, 2012. Teaching 1. The Karl and Charlotte Bühler Award for Teaching Excellence in Psychology (2011) Grants 1. Research grant: Extending the glass-cliff phenomenon. Awarded by TU Dresden (2012), 9800. 2. Participation in the Academy of Management Meeting (2012) was supported by a DAAD grant, 1800. 3. Erasmus Visiting Scholar grant to the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid (2012), 1000. 4. Erasmus Visiting Scholar grant to the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid (2011), 1000. 3
5. Erasmus Visiting Scholar grant to the Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Warsaw (2011), 800. 6. Research grant: Prospective memory and job tenure: An interdisciplinary study. Awarded by TU Dresden (2010), 650. 7. Participation in the 24th Annual SIOP Conference in New Orleans (2009) was supported by a Freunden und Förderern grant, 750. 8. Participation in the meeting of the 12th International Workshop on Team Working (2008), Birmingham, UK was supported by a DFG grant, 850. Submitted 1. Research grant: Revisiting the Glass-Cliff Phenomenon: Investigating Boundary Conditions was submitted to the German Research Foundation. Editorial contributions Editor of special issues Wegge, J., & Shemla, M., & Haslam, A. (2014). Leadership and Health. Journal of Research in Human Resource Management Editorial board Journal of Personnel Psychology Ad-hoc reviewer Applied Psychology: An International Review British Journal of Management British Journal of Social Psychology European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology Journal of Managerial Psychology Journal of Personnel Psychology Small Group Research 4
Invited Talks 1. Shemla, M. (2012, March). The impact of power. UNED, Madrid, Spain (Host: Prof. Juan Antonio Moriano). 2. Shemla, M. (2011, May). Gender in the workplace. UNED, Madrid, Spain (Host: Prof. Juan Antonio Moriano). 3. Shemla, M. (2010, July). Team Diversity. Melbourne Business School, Australia (host: Prof. Karen Jehn). Conferences 1. Shemla, M., Kearney, E., Wegge, J., & Stegmann, S. (2012, August). Team diversity, team processes, and team performance: The moderating role of leader mood. The Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, USA. 2. Shemla, M., Kearney, E., Wegge, J., & Lehman, P. (2011, September). Team diversity, team processes, and team performance: The role of leader mood. 7 th Meeting of the German Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (AOW), Rostock, Germany. 3. Shemla, M., Wegge, J., Kearney, E., & Schraub, E. M. (2011, July). Affective linkages in work teams: Does perceiving differences in teams make us feel less alike? European Association of Social Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden. 4. Shemla, M., Wegge, J., & Kearney, E. (2011, April). The moderating role of diversity and identification on affective linkages in work teams. SIOP, Chicago, USA. 5. Shemla, M., Wegge, J., Kearney, E., & Schraub, E. M. (2010, September). Does perceiving differences in teams make us feel less alike? The moderating role of diversity and identification on affective linkages in work teams. 47. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Bremen. 6. Shemla, M., Wegge, J., Kearney, E., & Schraub, E. M. (2010, July). The moderating role of diversity and identification on affective linkages in work teams. 27th international congress of applied psychology (ICAP), Melbourne, Australia. 7. Shemla, M., Wegge, J., Kanfer, R., & Schmidt, K-H. (2009, April). The impact of gender composition on health disorders in teams. SIOP, New Orleans, USA. 8. Shemla, M., Wegge, J., Kanfer, R., Schmidt, K-H., & Hoch, J. (2008, Sep- 5
tember). Men s and women s health disorders as a function of gender diversity in work teams. 12th IWOT, Birmingham, UK. 9. Shemla, M. & Wegge, J. (2008, July). Motivational problems in work groups as a function of age and tenure diversity. ICP 2008, Berlin. Chaired Symposia 1. Shemla, M., & Meyer, B. (2010, July). Subjective diversity perceptions: The real diversity? 27th international congress of applied psychology (ICAP), Melbourne, Australia. Academic supervision 1. Morgenroth, T. (pending). Extending the glass cliff : Investigating underlying mechanisms and moderating variables in the German context. 2. Bilinska, P. (2011). No one way street: Automatic affective transfer in leader-subordinate relationships. Grade: 1.3. 3. Hörig, S. (2010). Followership and performance in call-centre work. Grade: 1.0. 4. Lehmann, P. (2010). Team Diversity and Team Processes: Assessing the Moderating Role of Leader Affect and Leader Prototypicality and the Mediating Role of Team Affect. Grade: 1.0. 5. Hentschel, T. (2009). Subjective diversity, identification, and conflict: The moderating role of diversity beliefs and the mediating role of team affect. Grade: 1.0. 6. Harbig, A. (2009). The Affective Consequences of Team Diversity and Their Impact on Elaboration and Team Performance. Grade: 1.3. 7. Steffens, N. (2008). An Exploration of the Multilevel Effects of Organizational Tenure on Individual Performance. Grade : 1.0 *Recipient of the Lohrmann-Medaille 2009 Teaching (English) WS 2007: Quality Management WS 2007: Organizational Development SS 2008: Organizational Change SS 2008: Team Diversity WS 2008: Personnel Psychology WS 2008: Teamwork SS 2009: Social-Organizational Psychology SS 2009: Current issues in Team research WS 2009: Social-Organizational Psychology WS 2009: Organizational Psychology SS 2010: Research project: Occupational Health 6
SS 2010: Social-Organizational Psychology WS 2010: Research project: Occupational Health SS 2011: Research project: Occupational Health SS 2011: Teamwork SS 2011: Research project: Work & Organizational Psychology WS2012: Personnel Psychology WS2012: Leadership 2012: Managing People in Organizations 2012: Research Methods OCTOBER, 2012 7